With the 2019 Auckland Bike Challenge fast approaching this playlist brings together a selection films, documentaries, and news items relating to cycling.

Following the success of May being New Zealand Music Month, Māori music will be celebrated in the month of August, which will be known as Te Marama Pūoro Waiata Māori--Māori Music Month. For additional content, visit the Archive of Māori and Pacific Music online, http://ampm.auckland.ac.nz/

A showcase of NZ music television, with a mixture of classic documentaries and local music shows. From Flying Nun to the NZSO, Heartbeat City to the Big Day Out, there’s something here for all ears.

A selection of programmes on, or using New Zealand Sign Language for New Zealand Sign Language Week, 06 to 12 May 2019

Collection of documentaries, short films and feature films directed and produced by Rudall and Ramai Hayward between 1928 and 1973.

Collection of New Zealand short films.

To celebrate Uike Kātoanga'i 'o e Lea Faka-Tonga | Tongan Language Week here are a selection of items from TV & Radio which highlight the language and culture of Tonga.

News coverage of the 2015 United Kingdom Election Debates

US Presidential Election Debates from 2016, 2012, 2008 & 1992.

TV coverage covering several years worth of New Zealand election debates

The stories of New Zealand Poets, and some international poets, with readings of their work

50 years ago on 10th April 1968, tragedy struck at the entrance to Wellington Harbour.

James Cook's arrival in Aotearoa on the Endeavour in 1769 has been commemorated and commented on in a variety of ways over the years, with an ever-increasing shift away from celebration to critical analysis. This playlist attempts to capture this changing perspective, from a 1969 newsreel through to recent documentaries looking at the voyage and its legacies from different viewpoints.

TV coverage provided by Maori Television ANZAC Day 2015

TV coverage provided by Maori Television ANZAC Day 2014

Commercials played on New Zealand television in the 2000s

A selection of New Zealand television commercials from the 1990s.

A selection of New Zealand television commercials from the 1980s.

John Morrison Clarke (29 July 1948 – 9 April 2017) has died aged 68. Clarke was a New Zealand-born comedian, writer, and satirist. He was born in Palmerston North, New Zealand, and lived in Australia from the late 1970s. He first became known during the mid 1970s for portraying a laconic farmer called Fred Dagg on stage, film, and television.

Geoff Murphy was born in Wellington in October 1938 and rose to become one of New Zealand's greatest film makers through works such as 'Goodbye Pork Pie', 'Utu', and 'The Quiet Earth' during the 1980s. Moving to the Hollywood in the 1990s he directed numerous films and became renowned for "fast action sequences and knockabout comedies". In the early 2000s Murphy returned to New Zealand and continued to work in film. In recent year he was awarded a Moa NZ Film Lifetime Achievement Award (2013), and was made an NZOM in the 2014 New Year Honours.

A collection of titles featuring Dr. Ranginui Walker--writer, educator, and cultural commentator--who passed away this morning, 29 February 2016, aged 83.

A small selection of the work of Peter Wells, (1950 – 18 February 2019), highly acclaimed award-winning New Zealand author, historian and film-maker. He passed away in Auckland's Mercy Hospice surrounded by close friends and his husband, Douglas Lloyd-Jenkins. Wells was one of the country's first openly gay writers and explored such themes in novels and films. He graduated from the University of Auckland (BA) in 1972. In Hawke's Bay he was a key driver in the recognition of Napier’s Art Deco heritage. His television documentary, 'Newest City on the Globe', was a major catalyst for the revival of interest in the Art Deco period. One of the 1985 series of TV dramas 'About Face' on contemporary urban issues was 'Jewel's Darl' which follows a day in the life of a transsexual, and starred the young Georgina Beyer. A later documentary 'Georgie Girl' tells the life story of Georgina Beyer, from sex worker, to actor, to Mayor of Carterton and Member of Parliament. In 1986 he wrote and directed NZ's first TV drama about AIDS, 'A Death in the Family'. The 1993 film 'Desperate Remedies' is a high camp melodrama set in the 19th century with themes of opium, sex and undesirable suitors. In 2006 he was announced as a member in the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to literature and film.

Pua Magasiva is Samoan-born New Zealand actor. His best known roles were as Nurse Vinnie Kruse in New Zealand soap opera Shortland Street and Shane Clarke, the Red Ranger from Power Rangers Ninja Storm. Major film roles are in; Aroha- Haka & Siva; Sione's Wedding; Matariki and and Sione's 2.